Quotes About Wisdom

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.

The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Writing is making sense of life.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

On the road of life... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are... Keep walking.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.